The non-partisan Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) issues annual reports analyzing the impact of domestic legislation on America’s middle class. Literally grading Members of Congress based on whether their votes are for or against "legislation significant to America's current and aspiring middle class."

Conservative politicians who serve only the interests of the rich and "act in opposition to the interests and opinions of nine-tenths of their constituents," have always needed to be called to task - in 1798 the job was done by liberal newspapers and Democratic-Republican Congressmen. Today, this function is done online, and now, it's being done in real-time with TheMiddleClass.org
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NRDC wanted an innovative advocacy website to put them in the vanguard of advocacy technology. The project which Advomatic and NRDC built utilizes social video sites to effectively promote NRDC campaigns as well as empower a growing new generation of potential advocates to feel bound to the values and lifestyle of NRDC.
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Our AdvoStrategy Department joined with Senator John Edwards to build an online organization tool for offline volunteer action. The One America Committee meets the Peace Corps, One Corps was architected to grow virally and bond users with the Edwards organization thanks to proven social networking techniques from sites like LinkedIn, Meetup and Facebook.
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Advomatic is rebuilding and fully integrating the entire web presence of Living Liberally. LL is an organization dedicated to providing easy entrance into progressive involvement, using social interaction to promote political action and facilitating collaboration among progressive organizations.

Past projects include "The Morning After Conference," where many leading national organizations and writers debriefed after the 2004 and 2006 elections; the "Progressive Tourist Bureau at the Tank" a hub for protesters, bloggers, and activists during the week of the 2004 Republican National Convention in NYC.
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The 2004 Democratic Presidential primaries were a challenge for all involved. Dean For America needed a web presence and volunteer management system in Iowa to organize volunteers from out of state.

Learn how we started!

For the second year, Advomatic is proud to partner with the YearlyKos Convention. We helped Kos volunteers customize their site to organize and promote the national convention, and we also host the website on our custom shared cluster servers.

Advomatic will again be a sponsor for this self-funded and vital piece of progressive infrastructure.
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Greenopia™ - the urban dweller's guide to green living - began as a book of eco-friendly retailers, services, and organizations in the Los Angeles area.

Advomatic was brought in to rebuild the online component for business listings, to develop the accompanying community site, and create a system allowing Greenopia to roll out additional city guides.
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Jewcy is a popular and profitable website that promotes Jewish art & theater, cultural news, and sells a Jewcy-branded range of apparel. The New York Times has described Jewcy as part of a "the Jewish Hipster movement."

The new Jewcy site organizes the growing online community around all aspects of Jewish culture, commerce, and politics. The Guardian of London has described Jewcy as "a cultural icon" and "at the forefront of a reinvention of Jewish identity by young US Jews."

Before Advomatic, Air America's website crashed multiple times every day. A revolving carousel of web companies left Air America simultaneously running seven different content management systems on 3 unstable servers.

Our competitors fled the problem of 15 shows, each with their own blogs, mailing lists, audio clips, live audio streams, schedules, station listings, guest lists, and booking information.
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Talking Points Memo - Café is one of the most popular political blogs in the country with one of the most active readerships. We migrated TPM-Café off of Scoop after its backend became an unwieldy jungle and rebuilt an attractive CMS.

Advomatic is proud to also host this site that gets tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of thousands of pageviews. Advomatic excels as a provider for community news sites and other websites where stories and general content are provided by several writers. The use of RSS feeds and aggregators bring other communities "into the fold" and also help spread the word.
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An environmental advocacy and educational organization, Bioneers came to Advomatic asking for a dynamic home on the web with several sub-sites under the umbrella of the main site all with an integrated database system. They needed an advanced event registration system which allowed them to register everyone for their annual conference, as well as allow their affiliate organizations and partner groups to register people for their satellite conferences.

They wanted a system where traditional media could be funneled and organized, and where press hits could be generated. They wanted the site to be essentially a more efficient hub for the organization’s entire operation as well as a new tool for outreach and advocacy.

Christine Cegelis is an IT consultant and was the 2004 Democratic candidate for the 6th Congressional district of Illinois. Coming from a career in Information Technology, she knew what she wanted, and naturally she came to Advomatic. Cegelis' 2006 race was a grassroots effort working to overcome a well-funded machine-politics campaign supported by establishment politicians and media. Despite the loss, her supporters say it may be seen as as a populist victory against the established beltway insiders.

The Fresno Metropolitan Museum is currently undergoing a major expansion and renovation. They realized that while most of the museum's facilities are closed the website is one of the few ways to stay connected with the community. The old site was static, built with frames and flash navigation. In short, it was difficult to update and search engines could not find it.

Air America Radio referred national columnist Joe Conason to Advomatic.

Joe wanted clean, simple, and to the point.

Advomatic delivered.

MAPLight.org illuminates the connection between money and politics. Thanks to Advomatic, MAPLight connects campaign contributions and votes for U.S. Congress, providing groundbreaking transparency so that bloggers, journalists, and citizens can hold legislators accountable.

MAPLight.org won the $25,000 first prize at NetSquared's second conference for online social change.
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The brains and muscle behind critically acclaimed community sites Fresno Famous and Modesto Famous is a Lead Developer with Advomatic. Her deeply layered and dynamic community websites for these cities received glowing reviews in local media and national media including The Wall Street Journal. The profitable sites were recently purchased by the daily Fresno Bee paper.

New York City is always changing, but thousands of residents of Brooklyn, including 51 community organizations asked the question: How do we, the people, want that change to occur?

Spurred into action by Frank Gehry's design for 16 modern art skyscrapers and a Basketball Arena that will cost New York City taxpayers nearly $2 billion, Brooklyn rose up.

Technology and the Internet are changing democracy in America. Personal Democracy Forum is a hub for the exciting conversation underway between political professionals, technologists, and anyone else invigorated by the remarkable potential of technology to engage citizens in the democratic process.

A project of PDF, TechPresident was started by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry as a new group blog that covers how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the web, and vice versa; how content generated by voters is affecting the campaigns.

A project of several Washington D.C. thinktanks including "Public Agenda", a nonpartisan opinion research and civic engagement organization helping Americans explore and understand critical issues since 1975, "Facing Up" is a website dedicated to addressing and solving the long-term challenges of our federal budget after the abysmal fiscal management of the George W. Bush Administration.